Cuba wins silver medal in Pan American Mathematical Olympiad
San José, Aug 12 (RHC) Cuban student Dalia Oliver won the second silver medal at the 3rd Pan American Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (PAGMO), which closed in San José, Costa Rica, this Saturday.
Out of a total of 48 contestants from 14 countries, the 10th grade student from the Ernesto Guevara Pre-University Institute of Exact Sciences from the central province of Villa Clara, achieved 38 points out of the 42 required.
This competition, which is being held in person for the first time, has two days of exams in which six questions are answered, three for each day. Professor Amalia García, her trainer in Cuba and leader in this regional event, explained that Oliver performed five perfect exercises out of the six proposed.
The student Oliver went to the competition in Costa Rica from the Central American Mathematical Olympiad, held at the end of July in El Salvador, in which she also obtained a silver medal.
The Costa Rican Mathematics Olympics commission, made up of the five state universities, the Ministry of Public Education and the Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications, and the Organizing Committee were in charge of carrying out the third Pan American Girls’ Mathematics Olympiad.
Contestants from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay and the host country also participated in the event. (Source: PL)
